Bug 214336 - Bluetooth Game Controllers Unresponsive in Progressive Web Application on iOS 14 Beta 2
Summary: Bluetooth Game Controllers Unresponsive in Progressive Web Application on iOS...
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit API (show other bugs)
Version: Other
Hardware: iPhone / iPad Other
: P1 Critical
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2020-07-14 19:39 PDT by goehdavi
Modified: 2020-07-23 13:28 PDT (History)
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Description goehdavi 2020-07-14 19:39:37 PDT 
Game controllers work in Safari, but not in a Progressive Web App using the Add to Home Screen functionality.
Comment 1 goehdavi 2020-07-14 20:36:08 PDT 
Opening https://gamepad-tester.com/ in the PWA standalone mode reveals that game controllers are not showing up.
Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-07-14 22:28:28 PDT 
<rdar://problem/65586008>
Comment 3 goehdavi 2020-07-15 15:37:18 PDT 
Looks like PWAs on iOS are WKWebView based: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185448

and looks like GamePad API support was never added to WKWebView:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205448
Comment 4 goehdavi 2020-07-15 22:58:10 PDT 
This could also potentially be a first responder issue if the WKWebView in Web.app is not becoming the first responder.
Comment 5 Brady Eidson 2020-07-23 08:59:18 PDT 
(In reply to goehdavi from comment #3)
> Looks like PWAs on iOS are WKWebView based:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185448
> 
> and looks like GamePad API support was never added to WKWebView:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205448

That one fell through the cracks, and is simply not true - Of course they work in WKWebView, because Safari uses WKWebView.

We heard another report from someone else a bit before you filed that gamepads weren't working in Save to Homescreen Web Apps on iOS.

Multiple engineers verified internally that on iOS 14 beta 3 (released yesterday) they work as expected. Please give it a shot on the new beta.
Comment 6 goehdavi 2020-07-23 13:28:26 PDT 
Thanks! Verified that it is working in beta 3.